discussion Activision Blizzard under fire for problematic 'diversity tool'

[GentleDance]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 18, 2022 by GentleDance

[Domination]

Nothing wrong with it tbh. When you have liberal arts college journalists writing misguided and bad faith critiques of diversity in media on their substacks day in and day out - this is what you get. Honestly, it’s not bad and the characters in overwatch are very well designed and well rounded dispite diversity clearly being a high priority when creating them, which is often NOT the case  

[Carla Rosón]

I mean like it or not at the end of the day "inclusiveness" is just a marketing tool for most companies nowdays.

However this kind of metrics/model is something you'd want to keep internal and under wraps. Why release it to the public at all? ?

[Jotham]

Seems a little performative for a company whose female worker faced so much sexual harassment that she would later commit suicide during a work trip.

[ToxDust]

Thank god I stan a japanese company like Nintendo where none of this woke s*** matters

[Sweet Sexy Savage]

LMAO so how do you measure “culture”?

[Polgg48]

so its enhanced character customization, world of warcraft been on their black/variety hair/skins for a while and rarely thats ive seen anyone complain since the feature is always very in demend and suppose they give what people want. nice overwatch 2 benefit from this, however if thats a case, their reports on offensive name/skin oftenly got fast respond and very sensitive nowadays because of all that happened. 

 

great tool, next...

[Rev8]

So lil in sexual orientation

we really have a long way to go there

[Hephaestus]

3 hours ago, Domination said:

Nothing wrong with it tbh. When you have liberal arts college journalists writing misguided and bad faith critiques of diversity in media on their substacks day in and day out - this is what you get. Honestly, it’s not bad and the characters in overwatch are very well designed and well rounded dispite diversity clearly being a high priority when creating them, which is often NOT the case  

mte. It's fictional characters, so what if they're using a tool to make sure they're portraying diversity? I get it might look objectifying, but at least they're trying their best go give players some representation (contrarily to some other companies).

 

2 hours ago, ToxDust said:

Thank god I stan a japanese company like Nintendo where none of this woke s*** matters

This is not the serve you thought it was 

[Pop]

3 hours ago, ToxDust said:

Thank god I stan a japanese company like Nintendo where none of this woke s*** matters

the fact that you think this is a slay